SSP is the process of assessing the external and internal environments to identify new decision support and other applications that support the organisation’s business objectives (King, 1978; 1984; Premkumar & King, 1992; O’Connor, 1993; Segars & Grover, 1998; Sabherwal, 1999; Brown, 2010; Bygstad et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2010).1 Senior business executives, along with chief information officers (CIOs), thus play key roles in it (Schuman & Rohrbaugh, 1991; Earl, 1993; Cerpa & Verner, 1998). It is a continuous process periodically adjusted to the expectations of the participants (Salmela & Spil, 2002), and requiring critical reflection on values and assumptions about potential situations, as well as continuous dia- logue, listening and mutual collaboration (Córdoba, 2009). To carry it out, an organisation follows one of many similar, well-defined and documented methodologies, or it customises its own.